Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-12-07

Indictment Tor grand larceny,
 Cases of assault, 6.
 Indictments for assault, T.
 Cases oi assault to commit rape, 2.
 Indictments for rape, I.
 Cases for resisting an cheer, I. 1 Indictment for resisting officer.
 CasSs Os snts0cucanOY, 2.
 Indictments for misdemeanog, I
 Cases of arson. 2.
 Indictments for arson, a
 Cases of burglary, }.
 Indictments for burglary, 2.
 Cases of malfeasanoe in of6ce, I. Indictments for malfeasance in office Cases of defaulIer, I.
 Indictments for defaulter, O.
 Making in all torty-two cases examin- ed and twent-six indictments found.
 Then follows the usual report of the committee appointed to examine the
 various county offices all of which are Of ladatory character. They add, how ever. that from "inves,ig gaiion Of the books of the pubic administrators accounts we find unsettled est .tes to the number of one hundred and seventeen, amount ing in aggregate to four hundred thous- and dollars, some Of them dating as far back as I867." After an examination of the books of the board of supervisors they say:
 Mr. Mitchell tells us that the $r43.- 900 8 per cent redemption fund bonds are being funded into twenty year , per cent bonds, thereby giving an extension of time on bonds already due at per cent lower rate of interest. The levy for the present year provides for the payment of one-half of the Lynx creek road bonds. and the grester part of the outstanding warrants. The floating debt always increases in the summer and fall and is largely decreased in Jan. uary by the payment of warrants.
 We find that the totAl assessed valua- tion of the county for the year 1887 IS five million two hundred and fory thousand and. twenty two dollars and hfty-two cents (s,.4o.oss.ssl We ind that the prese..t rate of taxation ii three dollars and twenty-five cents per hundred dollars on the above named assessed value, as against three per cent in 1886. While our wealth is gradually increasing the rate af taxation is also increasing to an alarming degree.
 The Prescott k Arizona Central il. road has cost the county of Yavapai $s92. 900 and the citizens of Prescott an addition to this of forty thousand dollars making sum total of $3ao. 900. The ter. ritorial board of equalization has seen it | to place the said railroan taxable valus at only $Aooe per mile, or $79a,ooo, which to our minds IS entirely too low and should he raised 10 al least $6, ,oco per mile thereby. causing that cerpors- tion to bear its just proportion of tie public burden. in paying taxes on their gift.
 We have also discov red that about 68o, 900 acres of land has been selec,t d by she Atlantic &PAc,fic rsir .ad con- pany, in this county and assessed st only twenty-hve cents per acre. We recommend that said lands De assessed at one dollar per acre, which se consider extremely low on account ,f q great portion Of this land being GOV. .red with heavy pine timber, worth ar east ten dollars per acre.
 We discover that the greater portions # the patented mines are mt assessed. We recommend that the board Of super- 'isors be instructed to have abstracts of aid mines and they too be assessef. nd made to yield their just portion Of he county burden l. We found the floating indebtedness f the county to he as follows: On November IF, 1887, ien1 fund warrants 1885. 2 1912 OS ien1 fund warrants 1886. 44,723 A ien1 fund warrants 1887 29,763 96 'ctal genlf fund warrants out
 standing. ......... ST ,39S 4S | ,oad fund 1886 H,S59 O5 Is load fund 1887 3,65O 36 . S,5O9 fl